HARTFORD — A civil liberties group called on Connecticut education officials Wednesday to reject a report on creating single-sex classrooms to address a gender achievement gap, saying separating boys and girls would be unconstitutional.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut sent a letter to state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor criticizing the report as inadequate and expressing concern that educators who read it would decide to try single-sex classrooms. The ACLU also urged Pryor to notify all public schools in the state that separating classes by gender would be illegal.

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